ACQUITY Advanced Polymer Chromatography (APC) System
The highest performance for polymers and oligomers
Today’s polymer scientists operate within an increasingly dynamic market space, one with a growing demand for high-performing materials, bio-material innovations, and intense competition. But the long run times of traditional chromatography polymer characterization has made keeping up with this demand a challenge for many labs.
Not anymore. With the next era in polymer separation, the ACQUITY Advanced Polymer Chromatography (APC) System, you can achieve the highest resolution size-based separations for chromatographic polymer and oligomer characterization, all faster than ever. With the ACQUITY APC System, you can improve data consistency and quality with fast, daily calibration, and automate your method development with advanced system technologies - so you can innovate faster while improving lab operations.
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Features and Benefits
- Accelerate your insights - Reduce laboratory turnaround times for polymer samples by getting answers to your development labs, your manufacturing operations teams, and your customers 5 to 20 times faster than traditional SEC/GPC with the ultra-low system dispersion of the ACQUITY APC System paired with ACQUITY APC Columns.
- Get the accurate data you need for informed decisions - Gain more insight into your polymer samples through compatibility with a wide range of specific detection techniques (refractive index, UV/Vis, PDA, ELS) and third-party advanced detectors like multi-angle light scattering and viscometry. Get accurate molecular weight (MW) data every day with the precise flow delivery of the isocratic solvent manager.
- Optimize method development, even in harsh conditions - Optimize method development via rapid and automated solvent switching and aggressive solvent compatibility, which supports the harsh separation conditions associated with polymer analyses.
- Improve lab efficiency with one system - Increase analytical scope and laboratory efficiency by leveraging one system to perform multiple applications, including basic liquid chromatography (LC), gradient, isocratic, reverse-phase, and gel permeation chromatography (GPC).
- Simplify your column management - Simplify and optimize column bank calibration through standards that are matched to column bank MW ranges. Versatile column management allows you to automatically select up to two banks of ACQUITY APC columns and up to two banks of traditional GPC columns - all housed in a stable, temperature-controlled environment.
Recommended Use: Highest-resolution, size-based separations for chromatographic polymer and oligomer characterization.
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Accelerate innovation with enhanced insight
Harnessing the benefits of advanced polymer chromatography with the ACQUITY APC System means obtaining accurate and repeatable polymer and oligomer molecular weight information anywhere between 5 to 20 times faster than was possible with traditional GPC/SEC technology - so you can innovate faster while improving laboratory operations.
With the ACQUITY APC System, you can:
- Reduce laboratory turnaround times for polymer samples by getting answers to your development labs, your manufacturing operations teams, and your customers - faster.
- Drive innovation with faster results and more information so that your entire operation can respond more rapidly by decreasing development cycle times and accelerating time to market.
- Streamline process monitoring and achieve better batch control with the agility to make timely decisions “on-the-fly” about process and synthesis optimization.
- Significantly reduce the analysis cost per sample by reducing solvent consumption and waste disposal volumes.
Optimize method development with solvent switching and compatibility
Using the ACQUITY APC System with Polymer Quaternary Solvent Manager (p-QSM) technology provides chemists and polymer scientists with the ultimate flexibility to analyze the most complex polymer blends and additives using standard polymer chromatography, gradient polymer elution chromatography (GPEC), and reverse-phase LC with a single system.
Additional system features allow automated solvent selection of up to six different solvents. Automated column bank switching capabilities can also be paired with the rigid and solvent-resilient particles of the ACQUITY APC Columns to achieve the world’s first truly automated solution for method development of size-based polymer separations. This supports separation of polymers in hours, instead of days.
Use advanced detection for even more insights
Get the valuable decision-making information you need from a single analysis by equipping the ACQUITY APC System with advanced detectors. Combining the ACQUITY APC System with advanced detection solutions significantly increases information attainable from size-exclusion chromatography (SEC) analysis through addition of refractive index (RI), ultraviolet (UV), photodiode array (PDA), light scattering (LS), and differential viscometry (IV). Advanced detection options from Wyatt Technology are seamlessly integrated with ACQUITY APC System, enabling you to fully characterize samples to better inform the structure-property relationship of novel complex polymers.
Keep pace with your research with dedicated consumables
The ACQUITY APC System is even more powerful with ACQUITY APC Columns and ACQUITY APC Calibration Standards Kits. The Ethylene Bridged Hybrid (BEH) Technology in ACQUITY APC Columns creates particles that ensure extreme column performance and long column lifetime under harsh operating conditions – ideal for general purpose, reversed-phase chromatography, and for method development due to extreme pH stability and applicability to the broadest range of compound classes.
With run times of less than 10 minutes, a bank of ACQUITY APC Columns can be calibrated in less than 30 minutes using ACQUITY APC Calibration Standards Kits. These standard kits have been matched to the MW range of ACQUITY APC Columns, generating a 10-point calibration for any bank combination in a simple dilute-and-shoot format. With daily column bank calibration, you can greatly improve data consistency to increase confidence in batch-to-batch measurements. Select the best column and calibration standards for a given application with our convenient selector tool.